Building a custom AI app is no longer the hard part — getting it into employees' hands securely is. AI Publish closes that gap. Teams can build an app in tools like Lovable in minutes, then deploy it to the entire organization through Island's management console in just a couple more — with identity, data protection, and policy automatically applied. The result is a fast, governed way to augment the tools employees already use, without waiting on vendors or development teams to do it for you.

Read on for a transcript of the AI Publish demo video.

Now, AI Publish. This enables organizations to take consumer-generated apps and wrap them in an enterprise envelope, then deliver them at mass scale. HR teams want to create apps. Sales teams want to create apps. AI Publish takes that and pushes it into the enterprise. Let's see a demo.

The thing about AI Publish is that the distance between going to Lovable to create an application — which takes about five to six minutes — and putting that application in the hands of end users is identity, data protection, monitoring, and visibility. With Island, we shrink that distance to just a couple of minutes in the management console.

Here's how it works. In the management console, you create new content and choose an AI widget, application, or tool depending on what you're trying to achieve.

Let's say I want to build something that addresses gaps in Salesforce — things Salesforce doesn't do today that we need it to do. If we asked Salesforce to build that, it might take months, years, or never happen. So we do it ourselves. We take the code from Lovable, choose an icon, and add it to the management console. I can select the exact audiences I want to apply it to. That's it — two minutes of work after the seven minutes it took Lovable to generate the code.

Once the policy is pushed, users immediately see the new widgets on their homepage. In this example, we've built a calendar widget and an email widget. But it can be anything. Our product team built a world clock widget because coordinating across time zones is always a challenge.

When you think about the customer experience on the homepage, they are no longer bounded by what enterprise communication used to offer — a survey, a poll, whatever. You can generate any app. And what Roy is showing is real-world integration. These are his actual emails and meetings on the homepage.

Here's the Salesforce helper. On the left side is the internal legacy application — Salesforce, a SaaS app we can't fully control. On the right side is our own application that does exactly what we need Salesforce to do, but doesn't today. That's how we bridge the gap.

In this example, we use AI insights to connect to internal systems, fetch data, surface what we need, and enable quick actions like outreach or data export — all placed right next to the existing business application.

This is the first time in software where you can go to existing apps — where companies have invested so much in customization and change management — and build an augmentation layer super fast. The AI app on the right understands the page. How long did it take to build? A few minutes. And we've augmented Salesforce with the organization's business logic in a few minutes, with everything secured, audited, and policy-applied.

And because it's so easy, it's feasible to do this across many business applications without a development team. We built another application on Gmail in just a few minutes. On the left is the email. On the right is a tool that tells you who you're emailing with, what account they're associated with, talking points, and a thread summary. A real lifesaver, built in minutes.